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Ten of the Most Brilliant Minds You Will Meet

18
Jun 2018

Don’t miss your chance to rub shoulders with these brilliant minds at Campus Party Singapore!

Annabelle Kwok
Her mission is to demystify artificial intelligence for the commons and make it easier for small businesses to leverage its potential. Mathematics whiz and AI practitioner, Annabelle Kwok launched two successful start-ups before she turned 25. Wind surfer, runner, taekwondo black belter, musician, and more – she’s always game to experience life to the fullest.

Julie Choo
For the past 15 years, Julie Choo has worked with C-level executives to help steer the strategic capabilities of banks and large corporations. She is a believer in positive disruption and her book “The Strategy Journey” outlines the ways in which businesses need to transform in the digital age.

Bill Reith
Bill Reith was the lead developer engineer at Backyard Brains, home of the world’s first “cyborg” RoboRoach, which uses micro stimulation of antenna nerves to control the movements of a cockroach. Aside from being a cyborg technology led neuroscientist and TED speaker, Bill also develops self-flying cameras for his current position as a Prototyping Lab Engineer at Skydio in Silicon Valley.

Anna Rosling
She has a fascination with “everyday life in the middle”. Co-founder of fact tank Gapminder Foundation, Anna Rosling created the visual framework “Dollar Street” to show how similar our daily lives are. It is designed to promote a fact-based worldview, quash ignorance and help people understand the living conditions of others around them.

Randolf Arriola
Meet the self-taught musician with extraordinary versatility, harmonic knowledge, electronic skill, and sound engineering expertise. The first vinyl record Randolf Arriola ever listened to is “The Sound of Music”. You could say it started him on a journey to become a world-renowned live looper. Now, he is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, electronics whiz, and sonic painter who knows how to own the stage.

Neil Cross
What do you have to do to earn the title “World’s Most Disruptive Chief Innovation Officer”? Neil Cross is the Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank as well as the founder of Hotel Orangutan – a social enterprise that aims to protect the endangered animal and provide jobs and education to locals in Sumatra.

Laina Greene
She has worked in 47 countries over 25 years and what Liana Greene encountered during her travels made her realise that technology has great potential to change lives in a significant way. She founded Angels of Impact – a community of funders who empower social entrepreneurs to help disadvantaged communities gain access to affordable technology.

Juvena Huang
Remember what you did when you turned 20? Juvena Huang celebrated by getting a Vespa scooter that changed her life. When a friend suddenly passed away, Juvena left her home and career behind to see the world on her Vespa. Twenty-five countries, 27 months, and 44,000 kilometres later, “The Wandering Wasp” returned to write a book about her travels.

Jesko Von Den Steinen
He has performed in more than 2,500 shows as a principal solo artist in Cirque de Soleil. Now, Jesko von den Steinen applies his creative vision in corporate boardrooms to show how structured creativity can benefit businesses. The former professional actor and circus artist is also an academic, speaker, business strategist, consultant, and thought leader.

Ola Rosling
He is the chairman, director and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation (Co-founded with his wife  Anna Rosling Rönnlund and his father Hans Rosling). Otherwise, better known as a Swedish statistician known for his work on changing the global quality of life. Ola Rosling has led the development of the Trendalyzersoftware which converts international statistics into moving, interactive graphics. The software was bought by Google in 2007.For this work he and his wife were awarded with the World Technology Award in Design in 2010.

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